"Tolkien and the Classics", publication scheduled for December 2014, Effatą publishing house, Turin (Italy), edited by Italian Group on Tolkien Studies. eBook form, print-on-demand copies will be available as well.
Please, submit an abstract (maximum 300 words) and a very brief CV to the following email address within 31st December 2013: info(at)jrrtolkien.it
The final draft will have to be received within 30th June 2014.
By confronting Tolkien's works with other literary Classics, notably, but not only, Italian and Anglo-American ones, what is aimed at is to show up the common characteristics of the Classics that perfectly fit the author of The Lord of the Rings.

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